The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05
FACT AND FANCY.


| Every other summer Phillips Brooks. the Bos-
| ton preacher. takes long vacation. This is his
vacation year.
n room when one is counting widow than when
counting girl.
Senator-elect Pasco, of Florida. is the only
confederate private who has ever been chosen to
the United States Senate.
General Meades grave IS marked with plain
white marble headstone bearing the inscription
He did his work bravely and he is at rest"
Hagsards best novel has had curious expe-
rience in an English public library. King Sol
onions Mines" Is placed among the works on
mineralogy.
Dwight Wasp: Mamma" said little five
year-old girl, pointing to turkey goobler stroll
ing around a neighbors yard, amt that red
nosed chicken got an awful big hustler
1t is singular fact that in the memorable bat
tie of Gettysb burg only one resident of the town
was killed. The person was Jennie Wade. and
monument is to be erected to her memory.
Chief-iustice Cole, of Wisconsin, pretty clearly
expressed the functions of court when he said
in reply to the question of what he was busy at:
"Oh guessing out cases. We have the last
guess"
Judge Orr, of Kankskee, ILL.,. has goat which
that the goat like his human brother, prefers TO
work the mower in the early morning. when it
will wake everybody up.
According to a London magazine of research.
called the Babylonian Record, cremation was
anclently common in Babylon. and 1t was into a
constantly heated crematory that Shadrach. Me-
shach and Abednego Were cast by Nebuchadnez-
Ear.
Professor Dwight Of Columbia, says Of Henry
Georges theory: Without private property IN
land no man can have an assured birthplace
or burial place. No tree can be planted that he
can call his own, nor any dwelling be erected
that will give him assured shelter
Calvin S. Brice, who was poor school teacher
at Lima, o., few years ago, has leased James
Gordon Benefits gorgeous villa at Newport for
the summer. Mr.. Brice has made his fortune
a railroad consolidator. and his transactions
have the merit of being legitimate.
The photographer who persuaded Mrs. C1eve-
land to give him sittings for twenty five mega
tives. last summer, reports that he has already
sold over fifty thousand prints. and calculates
that the years accounts Will show one hundred
thousand sold. He owns up TO a profit of $1,000
Sir Henry Popsonby. private secretary to
Queen Victoria, is miniature edition of Kaiser
Wilhelm. His moustache and whskers cut
in the exact shape and style of the German EN-.
perors- His thin white hair is brushed over
high bullying forehead also in the Wilhelm
style
Harpers Young People: patronizing old
gentleman lately attempted conversation with
child Western train. where do you
live. my good little girl9" IT don't live any
wnere" Then where did you come fromT II
didn't come from anywhere" What station
did you get on atf II didn't get on at any sta
tion." well where do you belong and how did
you get here?" I'VE belong the farm aud we
got on at the tank. Don't you know anything
scarelyW
A Chicago man paid $3.50 few weeks ago for a
and improved incubator. He placed there
in $25 worth of high priced eggs. and hired boy
to attend at q further expense of $25 The time
having fully expired. he went yesterday morn
ing TO inspect the incubator. and Zee how many
of the eggs had Matched. The only living thing
he found was large blue bottl-dtfy which he
caught and put in a bottle. He exhibits this
insect inouiring friends the only 5000 fly in
the United States.
The famous diva Giuia Grisi died in Berlin
about seventeen years ago. Her quondam hus-
band, August Gerard de Mecy, has recently
been sentenced a years Imprisonment in
France fer forgery. De Melcy is of good fam
lily. and married Grisi in 1886 Ten years later
they separated. He returned to his native place
in the Ardennes. and after years of financial ups
and downs has been convicted of forging his
dead brothers signature. He IS seventy years
or age. but finely preserved.
Boston Courier Wife-What do you think OF
the new girl, John? Husband-Was that her
that let me in9 Wife-Yes Husband-Well.
she's Just daisy. Wife {icly)-Think so2 Hus-
bund Enthusiastically so! why, she
has complexion like moss rose and eyes like
like don't know what; and her teeth are
to dinner. he was let in oy girl with COM
pexion like polished ebony. eyes as large as
saucers and teeth like two rows of p.ano-keys.
a short time ago a middle aged gentleman in
Dublin presented en- intelligent parrot to q Miss
Angelina, whom he meant to marry. He is now
being sued for breach of promise OF account of
the same bird. He knocked at his finances
door and the parrot said Come in" He went
in, discovered a strange young man sitting
the sofa with the young lady. and then the par
rot initiated a long string of kisses and laughed
6endishly The match was declared off, and the
lady brings suit. She declares that the parrot
wrong.
In the morning gray and early.
When a feels mighty surly,
Comes the fly,
Pretty fly
And it wakes him from his sleeping,
With its innocent DO peeping.
With its buzzing and its npping,
With its biting and its skipping.
Prevents his morning mapping.
Wears him out with constant slapping
Does the fly!
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